From an IT manager’s perspective, the applications that run the business are important, very important. In fact, many RISC/UNIX migration discussions focus on application support, performance, and availability. With a growing number of customers transforming their IT practices and economics by migrating off RISC/UNIX platforms to Cisco UCS, we have introduced Cisco Validated Designs (CVDs) for business-critical applications which also contain a RISC/UNIX migration element.

The first migration focused CVD is Oracle PeopleSoft on Cisco UCS. The goal of this CVD is to provide sufficient information to run an Oracle ERP application like PeopleSoft on Cisco UCS. ERP applications are the backbone for many organizations to run their business functions and robust performance is a requirement. With that in mind, we measured the online performance of Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Human Resources Management System (HRMS) 9.1 using Oracle Database 11g on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL) 5.6 operating system. The solution was comprised of a standard 3-tier technology stack of web, application and database servers. The web and application servers were run on Cisco UCS B200 M2 blade servers and the database server was run on a Cisco UCS B250 M2 blade. This benchmark measured client response times for up to 2500 concurrent users which represents a small to medium-sized company profile.

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